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<div><h1 class="article-title">How do I activate community guidelines for Conversations?</h1></div>
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    <p>Add custom community guidelines for your course that all participants must agree to before viewing posts in the Conversations tool.</p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Go to the Conversations tool.</h2>
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    <p>Select the <strong>Conversations</strong> tool from the Tool Menu of your site. </p>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Click Settings.</h2>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Toggle on the Community Guidelines.</h2>
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<li>Toggle <strong>Enable Community Guidelines</strong> to <strong>On</strong>. You will see a preview of the default guidelines provided by your system administrator.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Edit Guidelines </strong>to customize the guideline text.</li>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Edit community guidelines as needed.</h2>
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<li>Enter community guidelines using the <a href="content.hlp?docId=whatistherichtexteditor">Rich Text Editor</a>.</li>
<li>Click <strong>Save</strong>. </li>
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    <h2 class="step-title screensteps-heading">Preview the community guidelines.</h2>
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    <p>A preview of the <strong>Community Guidelines</strong> displays to you after clicking <strong>Save</strong>.</p>
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